Calorie

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Calorie \Cal"o*rie\, n. [F., fr. L. calor heat.] (Physics)
     The unit of heat according to the French standard; the amount
     of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram
     (sometimes, one gram) of water one degree centigrade, or from
     0[deg] to 1[deg]. Compare the English standard unit, {Foot
     pound}.


     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  calorie
       n 1: unit of heat defined as the quantity of heat required to
            raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree
            centigrade at atmospheric pressure [syn: {gram calorie},
             {small calorie}]
       2: a unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise
          the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree at
          one atmosphere pressure; used by nutritionists to
          characterize the energy-producing potential in food [syn:
          {kilogram calorie}, {kilocalorie}, {large calorie}, {nutritionist's
          calorie}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  20 Moby Thesaurus words for "calorie":
     BTU, British thermal unit, atomerg, dinamode, dyne, energid, erg,
     foot-pound, great calorie, horsepower-hour, horsepower-year, joule,
     kilocalorie, kilogram-meter, kilowatt-hour, photon, quantum,
     rational calorie, therm, thermal unit